Dawn: This is a great side dish for any time of the year and especially at summer time when thoughts turn to delightful outdoors eating and leisurely summer days enjoyed beneath clear blue skies lying on picnic blankets, enjoying some of your favourite foods.

Method

Mix all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl, adding the salt and pepper to personal taste.

Dawn: And hey presto! It’s made! It really is that simple! You may wish to add a squeeze of lemon juice to the ingredients to add a zing to the flavours: personally, I simply adore this without any lemon juice. It makes a filling, lovely snack for mid afternoon as well as a fab accompaniment to main dishes and can keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two weeks – if someone doesn’t eat it before!!!

Not only is this delicious tasting and simple to make but the added beauty of this recipe is that the ingredients cost less than £1 to make a big bowl! And, what’s more, you know exactly what has gone into making it, too. A real winning combination!

Splendid Salads equal Super Salads! To be eaten with or without accompanying dishes, salads make a perfect nutritional collection of ingredients for all-year-round consumption.

Dawn: Summer is almost here! And with the sunny, warm and long days ahead, our attention is drawn to thoughts of picnics, walks, playing outdoors and barbeques.

Andrew: And what better a way to celebrate this season than pulling together some easy to follow and delicious dishes to enjoy underneath Mother Nature’s canopy?!?

Dawn: My sentiments, exactly! Before we trundle headlong into the glorious season that Summer is, I want to add that salads aren’t just for Summer and can be an excellent and filling meal or accompaniment to a main meal throughout the year.

Andrew: Exactly! So, what are we preparing today to tantalise the taste buds, Dawn?

Dawn: A very easy, filling and healthy version of coleslaw that I dreamt up. So, without further-ado, I’m crack on.

Ingredients

Serves 4 persons as a main dish or generously, 8-10 people as an accompaniment

Half a white cabbage, washed, sliced and chopped

1 carrot, washed, peeled and grated

3 eating apples, washed and grated

50g of sultanas

14 dried prunes, chopped or cut into small pieces

300g-400g low fat or fat free natural yoghurt

Salt and pepper to season

Method

Put the white cabbage into a large mixing bowl.

Gradually add the natural yoghurt and mix these two ingredients well together until you have achieved a consistency and texture you like.

Andrew: No mayonnaise, Dawn?

Dawn: No. I’ve just used a natural yoghurt which gives a very healthy ‘take’ on the traditionally used mayonnaise. So, offering a low fat and healthy version of coleslaw which benefits with extra taste being infused from the apples, prunes and sultanas.

Andrew: And this substituting natural yoghurt for traditional mayonnaise doesn’t negatively impact the flavours of the dish?

Dawn: Absolutely not, Andrew. What the natural yoghurt does do is add a similar consistency of texture as mayonnaise while not distracting in flavour from the other ingredients. And is a very low fat and healthy alternative.

Next, add the shredded carrot and apples, sultanas and chopped prunes. Mix all these ingredients together until the ingredients are coated with the yoghurt.

Season with salt and pepper as per your personal preference.

Serve either as a small standalone meal for up to 4 people or as an accompanying dish to other salads, fish and/or meat dishes.